Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:48:03 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF > in ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much > from him on it lately. > > The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken > in my mind.
The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one way of putting it :)
The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs.
-- dwmw2
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